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10 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
whom he only survived forty-one years. See
Chronological Appendix, Section 4.
2. Instead of making Meneptah-hotep-ha-Ma,
thirteenth son of Kameses II., his successor, as has
hitherto been universally presumed, I restore him
to his true dynastic place as only a co-regent under
his father, whom he did not even survive.
3. I then find the real successor of the Great
Barneses in his ninth son, Seti, the King Seti-
Meneptah II. of the Monuments, whom some had
conjectured to be the son and successor of Menep-
tah, while others, from want of any definite proof
to that effect, merely take him for a collateral
member of the family, whose title to the throne is
unknown.
4. Finally, instead of its remaining doubtful
who another unknown king of the same dynasty,
called Meneptah-Si-Ptah, was, how he came by
the throne which his monuments shew him to have
occupied, and why he is excluded from the list of
legitimate kings,—I identify him with Meneptah,
the eldest son of the regent; which makes it quite
apparent, both how he came to found a spurious
claim, and why that claim was disallowed.
I will now particularize the documentary evi-
dences of every available kind that I have been
able to collect in favour of these last three points,
which may be said to contain the political key
to the entire history of the Exodus and its times.
whom he only survived forty-one years. See
Chronological Appendix, Section 4.
2. Instead of making Meneptah-hotep-ha-Ma,
thirteenth son of Kameses II., his successor, as has
hitherto been universally presumed, I restore him
to his true dynastic place as only a co-regent under
his father, whom he did not even survive.
3. I then find the real successor of the Great
Barneses in his ninth son, Seti, the King Seti-
Meneptah II. of the Monuments, whom some had
conjectured to be the son and successor of Menep-
tah, while others, from want of any definite proof
to that effect, merely take him for a collateral
member of the family, whose title to the throne is
unknown.
4. Finally, instead of its remaining doubtful
who another unknown king of the same dynasty,
called Meneptah-Si-Ptah, was, how he came by
the throne which his monuments shew him to have
occupied, and why he is excluded from the list of
legitimate kings,—I identify him with Meneptah,
the eldest son of the regent; which makes it quite
apparent, both how he came to found a spurious
claim, and why that claim was disallowed.
I will now particularize the documentary evi-
dences of every available kind that I have been
able to collect in favour of these last three points,
which may be said to contain the political key
to the entire history of the Exodus and its times.